Cracker
['krækə] or ['krækɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends.
(noun.) a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet.
(noun.) a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things; 'crackers are often mistakenly called hackers'.
Editor: Wallace--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, cracks.
(n.) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
(n.) A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker.
(n.) A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
(n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
(n.) The pintail duck.
(n.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
Checker: Victoria
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Hard biscuit.
Typist: Moira
Examples
- He was a young man with a clear, hairless face, a long, thin nose, and rather nut-cracker jaws. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- That night I issued orders for opening the route to Bridgeport--a cracker line, as the soldiers appropriately termed it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The boy is generous and warm-hearted, but a perfect fire-cracker when excited. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- By four o'clock in the morning the battle had entirely ceased, and our cracker line was never afterward disturbed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The teeth were never intended to take the place of nut-crackers nor to rival scissors in cutting thread. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Prentice would pour out half a glass of what they call corn whiskey, and would dip the crackers in it and eat them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Squibs and crackers were thrown about. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One thing I never could comprehend was that Tyler had a sideboard with liquors and generally crackers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Fire-crackers and grenades were also known to the Chinese and the Greeks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Such machines, costing nearly a thousand dollars, produce from forty to sixty barrels of crackers a day, enabling them to be sold at about 5 cents a pound at retail. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They try to fasten on the bull their _banderillas_--barbed darts ornamented with colored paper, and often having squibs or crackers attached. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She brought crackers and we ate them and drank some vermouth. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There were crackers in it with the tenderest mottoes that could be got for money. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Typist: Penelope